North Dakota pipeline spill cleanup may take weeks

[CanonRay]

MANDAREE, N.D. (AP) — Company and tribal officials say a pipeline on North Dakota's Fort Berthold Indian reservation has leaked 1 million gallons of saltwater, with some of the fluid finding its way to a bay that leads to a lake that provides drinking water for the reservation.

http://news.msn.com/us/north-dakota-pipeline-spill-cleanup-may-take-weeks







These people look happy the people's drinking water is poisoned with salt water.

[House of Roberts]

1. Naturally occurring?

Saltwater is a naturally occurring, unwanted byproduct of oil and natural gas production that is between 10 and 30 times saltier than sea water.

It wouldn't 'occur' if you didn't suck that stuff out of the ground in the first place.

In 2006, a broken oil pipeline belched more than a million gallons of saltwater into a northwestern North Dakota creek, aquifer and pond. The cleanup efforts are ongoing at that site, which has been called the worst environmental disaster in state history.

I guess they can count years as weeks, if that's the spin they want to use.